The 'French Grasshopper' Interview

[Kevin and Tania O'Neal]

>Scott Schrade
>The 'French Grasshopper' Interview
>
>> 4. Is it a final album, like some like to speculate?
>>
>> No. Roger and I have found a way to work together now
>> and we will not let it go.
>
>Ugh.

No Ugh!  Yeaaaa!
Just wished he hadn't retreated a bit in the Shouting Grasshoppers 
interview.

>Why couldn't he have reached this blessed understanding
>while Entwistle was still alive.

Ohhhh, I hear you Cousin.
It's a shame.
A great dream derailed.

>It makes me feel sad.

One of us goooone.
One of us mad (Pete is mad at himself.  No mistaking that.  He's now coming 
to grips with what he's done.  He's working hard now to make up for it.)
One of us.....ME.....all of us sad.

>And guilty.

For becoming a historian?  ;-)

>Sad because I feel like we missed out on a bunch of great Who
>music that Pete could have given the green light to in the '80s &
>'90s.

Yeah, perhaps.
His head wasn't on right.
We have to allow him the right to be that way.  To live his live true to his 
feelings.
It's not fair of us to expect him to live his life for us.
We also have to allow him to make mistakes and finally come around to 
realizing that.
(not preaching to you, just verbalizing the obvious)

>Guilty because I know that what happened is what hap-
>pened.  There's no turning the clock back.

Nope.  It is....what it is.
We *all* have to keep moving forward.
That day when the news of John's death spread like fire through Who 
Nation.....we all knew we lost much more than just John (not to belittle 
John's death).  But, we lost future possibilities.
Imagine how Pete felt.  The start of his guilt, I think.  He knows the 
opportunities were lost too.

>Still, I was surprisingly moved to read the following:

Me too.

>> ....I don't regret ending the Who in 1982, but I do regret
>> the reason I ended it. I closed the door too tightly, and it
>> has been hard for me to accept that although the Who were
>> in creative trouble in 1981, we weren't quite beaten. We
>> might have survived.
>
>There's that honesty we all admire in the man....

Yup.
It will be interesting to observe the next 10 years or so.
If he remains open with us, we'll see other regrets surface.

Reconciliation is good for the soul.

Kevin in VT